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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by owencm on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:23PM (#10275741)
Actually, sites in Chrome can work fully offline today using Service Worker (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introd...). And they can get users to add the site to their homescreen, so they have the full icon+offline experience (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...).
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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by mintplant on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:25PM (#10275938)
Service Workers are also in Firefox Nightly right now, but are hidden behind an about:config flag until the feature is fully baked.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

http://caniuse.com/serviceworkers

There's also the Application Cache, which has been fully supported in the stable versions for a while now.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_...

http://caniuse.com/offline-apps

And of course, FF for Android has an "Add to Homescreen" button too.

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Re:Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps by hackcasual on Thursday September 24, 2015 @11:12PM (#10276181)
Application cache is a fucking nightmare. Service Worker's can't come soon enough.
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